No. Arsenal was but Chelsea were not
I do wonder about the argument being put forward about player valuations because
1) every PL club would be shopping and or selling in the same market
2) Impairment should have been greater but the problem with that is the losses would have been even greater.
No matter which way you come at this the simple fact is that the income they Everton can earn at this point in time just won’t support the wage bill and the amortised sum in respect of historical transfers.
This is going to be get a whole lot messier and in truth does anyone on here really think the sum being claimed as COVID impact is justified?
Well as long as we sell players we will be fine imo. Going down would obviously change things.
The wage bill is already lower than the 182mil reported last week. I mentioned this last week these books were signed off last October, Everton would have known what was coming bar usm of course, so why wasn’t there a fire sale last summer.
Obviously some players leave on frees this summer. Some other big signings have signed new deals like Pickford, Keane and Richarlison which will drop their Amortisation costs quite low.
So what’s left. Mina Godfrey, patterson,
Mykolenko, Allan, Gomes, Gbamin, Doucoure, iwobi, kean
Probably talking about 50mil and hopefully 5 of them will be out the door